Hard Drive Won't Format

I'm trying to get my new build to work. After getting it to POST and show up in the BIOS, I popped in my WINXP disc to get the OS installed.

After I get the blue set up screen for WINXP to set up, I hit ENTER to get the process going.

I hit F8 and agree to the user agreement.

The blue screen shows the disc size in MB and asks me to either ENTER to install, C to CREATE PARTITION, or F3 to Quit

When hitting ENTER to INSTALL, I hit ENTER again to use NTSF formatting.

Unfortunately, while the computer can detect the hardrive, when trying to partition and format it, it ultimately quits at about 20% and says something about not being able to format the disc and to check if its damaged or connected.

when booting to winxp cd did you hit f6 to install sata drivers for the hdd,you may have to do this first ! you will find sata drivers on the motherboard cd.but will need a floppy drive and disk to copy them when hitting f6